Overview
- Argues that harmless-seeming images shape society’s perception of scientific processes and the ‘other’
- Explores whether comics creators should take greater account of the ideological affect of the images they produce
- Adds to a growing body of critical work in the ethics of archaeology and related fields
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways. The volume comes at these questions from a specifically archaeological perspective, foregrounding the representation and narrative use of material cultures. It fulfils its objectives through three reception studies in the first part of the volume and three chapters by comic creators in the second part. All six chapters aim to grapple with a set of central questions about the power inherent in drawn images of various kinds.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Zena Kamash FSA is a British Iraqi archaeologist and Senior Lecturer in Roman Archaeology and Art in the Department of Classics, Royal Holloway University of London, UK. She is an expert on the heritage and archaeology of the Middle East and Britain. Her current research focuses on crafting, heritage and healing in post-conflict Syria and Iraq.
Dr Katy Soar is a Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at the University of Winchester, UK. Her main areas of research are Greek Archaeology, particularly the Bronze Age Aegean, and the history and reception of archaeology. Her current research focuses on depictions of Knossos on historical postcards and on the representation of antiquity in folk horror.
Dr Leen Van Broeck is Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway University of London, UK, after completing a PhD on Tacitus there in 2018. She has taught undergraduate classicists and ancient historians on methods and approaches to (ancient) history and co-convened the Oxford Comics Network seminar series at the University of Oxford from 2019 to 2021.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Comics and Archaeology
Editors: Zena Kamash, Katy Soar, Leen Van Broeck
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98919-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98918-7Published: 07 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98921-7Published: 08 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98919-4Published: 06 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6370
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 177
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comics Studies, Archaeology, Classical Studies